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Each week, these notes share an ancient coin, context for the coin, relevant art, modern references and ancient sources. The coins range from beautiful works of ancient art to readily available and common coins that are no century portraits include the faces of contemporary Venetians the architecture is more Venitian that ancient The Battlefield Location Kinet Höyük is the modern town in Türkiye where the ancient harbor town of Issos

Aurora" by Guido Reni 1886 In 1637, Francescus Junius published "De Pictvra Vetervm Libri Tres" (Of Ancient He spoke from experience having decorated the outside of his home with images of ancient painters at For another image of Nike (Victory) in quadriga see GettyImages: Scene from ancient Greek vase with Heracles

surprising in these notes pages that Lais of Corinth attracted my interest because of the reverse of an ancient contributions to modern science, philosophy....as always, the wandering did eventually return to the ancient References (in addition to those cited in line) Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature Forum Ancient Coins, Corinth, Coins, and Cults, NumisWiki .

As we don't have ancient written sources, emissions are subjective classifications by scholars who specialize

DEcius is the first emperor that the ancient sources describe as dying in battle on Roman soil against Ancient sources do not align: Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus, attributes his death to the plague Gallus came to power, concluded a controversial peace with the Goths, and faced an epidemic that ancient minted in a world of dynastic hope and Gothic war; the Gallus sestertius minted into a period that ancient

In 25 BC Augustus established a colony in Lycaonia by setting aside a portion of the ancient city of Francis Hill’s “ Catalogue Of The Greek Coins Of Lycaonia Isauria And Cilicia ” (1900): and in Lindgren's Ancient

that clearly owe key elements of their style and dynastic succession to rules that were established in ancient England, Great Britain and the UK since 1399 A short side-trip to a modern monarchy and we will return to ancient The portrait of George IIII particularly reminiscent of ancient Roman portraits.

Gate to the agora (assembly place) of ancient Kibyra I think it is only fair to offer caution that this thread wanders a bit far from the coin, from provincial Phrygia to ancient Rome, from the Roman republic from Kibyra I've had a bit of writer's block recently, after a burst of effort to put my "Notes on Ancient It could seat ~10,000 people - a sizable ancient stadium. Excavation began in AD 2006.

-Polybius, 16.29.3-14 Ancient Aegean Sea area. CC by-SA 4.0. Invasion at Abydos - 5th Century BC Persian King Xerxes, in 480 BC, built a pontoon bridge near Abydos on top

Deliverately placed in the pit outside of the pot and within the limestone packing material were 10 earlier The Find:  While the main pot contained ~3,099 coins, a separate group of exactly 10 coins was found The Coins:  These 10 coins were all "radiates" (a slightly older denomination), dating from AD 260–293

This next coin is often described as a "persecution issue" as it promoted in Antioch the ancient gods Constantine I the Great (307/10-337), Follis (3.65g, 22mm), Heraclea, struck 313-314 Obv: IMP C FL VAL Ref: RIC VI Heraclea 75 Constantine I the Great (307/10-337), Follis (4.27g, 22mm), Heraclea, struck

Seuthes reached some level of truce or agreement with Lysimachos that allowed him to rule for the next 10 Museum Notes (American Numismatic Society) , 32 , 1–10.